Contact and joining
Synonyms for tamp
The synonym for tamp recorded in this bank is pack, in the sense "press down tightly". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for tamp
- packverb, in the sense "press down tightly"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day tamp is audited in a second meaning.
press down tightly
Tamp the coffee grinds in the container to make espresso.
The true synonym
pack
Same sentence, swapped: Pack the coffee grinds in the container to make espresso.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- prod
- jolt
- nudge
Where tamp turns up in the game
tamp is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where tamp is the trap
- stylusnoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is style, in the sense "a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving", and tamp is on the board beside it.
Play tamp
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so tamp reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other contact and joining words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
tamp is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.